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  Weight Loss Helps to Oust Worms

  January 17, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that weight loss plays an important role in the body’s response to fighting off intestinal ... > full story
• Nutrition
  Dietary Supplements and Minerals
  Agriculture and Food
  Food and Agriculture
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  Dietary Shifts Driving Up Phosphorus Use

  January 17, 2013 — Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a ... > full story
• Fish
  Marine Biology
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  New Research Throws Doubt on Earlier 'Killer Walrus' Claims

  January 17, 2013 — Palaeontologists who examined a new fossil found in southern California have thrown doubt on earlier claims that a "killer walrus" once ... > full story
• Obesity
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  Immune System
  Triglycerides
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  Viagra Converts Undesireable White Fat Cells Into Beige Ones in Mice: May One Day Lead to New Weight Loss Methods

  January 17, 2013 — Researchers treated mice with Viagra and made an amazing discovery: The drug converts undesirable white fat cells and could thus potentially melt the unwelcome "spare tire" around the midriff. In ... > full story
• Heart Disease
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  First Fruit Fly Model of Diet-Induced Type 2 Diabetes Shows How High-Sugar Diet Affects Heart; New Therapeutic Opportunities

  January 17, 2013 — Regularly consuming sucrose -- the type of sugar found in many sweetened beverages -- increases a person's risk of heart disease, new research suggests. Scientists used fruit flies, a ... > full story
• Allergy
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  Fast Food Diet Linked to Asthma and Eczema Severity in Kids, Large Study Finds

  January 16, 2013 — Eating three or more weekly servings of fast food is linked to the severity of allergic asthma, eczema, and rhinitis among children in the developed world, indicates a large international ... > full story
• Diet and Weight Loss
  Obesity
  Food
  Food and Agriculture
  Vitamin D
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  Cutting Down on Sugar Has a Small but Significant Effect on Body Weight, Study Finds

  January 15, 2013 — Reducing sugar intake has a small but significant effect on body weight in adults, according to a new study. Although the effect is relatively small (an average reduction of 0.8 kg), the findings ... > full story
• Obesity
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Fitness
  Dieting and Weight Control
  Triglycerides
  Nutrition Research
   

  Fetal Exposure to PVC Plastic Chemical Linked to Obesity in Offspring

  January 15, 2013 — Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin -- which is used in marine hull paint and PVC plastic -- can lead to obesity for multiple generations without subsequent exposure, a ... > full story
• Nutrition Research
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  Growing Food on Walls? Robotic Nutritional Advice? What Does the Future Kitchen Hold?

  January 15, 2013 — By 2050 people the world over could be growing food on the walls of their homes and have eco-kitchens - complete with robots to provide nutritional advice, if one group's projections come ... > full story
• Nutrition Research
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  World Development
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  Nations That Consume a Lot of Milk Also Win a Lot of Nobel Prizes

  January 14, 2013 — Nations that consume a lot of milk and milk products also tend to have a lot of Nobel laureates among their populations, suggest the authors of a recent ... > full story

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